Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-user] Re: Append string on Kernel builds
Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:27:32
Message-Id:	`87ocy4a5jr.fsf@newsguy.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Append string on Kernel builds by David Relson

1	David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> writes:
2
3	> How about an external tool? I use sed to fill in LOCALVERSION, e.g.
4	>
5	> V=$( date "+%m%d.%H%M" )
6	> cp -p .config .config.old
7	> sed s/LOCALVERSION.*/LOCALVERSION=\"$V\"/ < .config.old > .config
8	>
9	> make vmlinux modules modules_install
10
11	Ahaa ... that looks just like what I'm after... I didn't know about
12	the env variable LOCALVERSION.
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14	I haven't actually tried this yet but it looks like what I'm after..
15	Thanks